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Under such circumstances there may be perfectly honest misunderstanding of signals and shouted messages. There may also be recklessness or stupidity or gross neglect. Which of these things was responsible for the destruction of the Canadian Pacific liner by the collier Storstad is to be the subject of rigid inquiry by a royal commission of investigation. The members of this commission will be Lord Mersey, chairman of the British commission which investigated the Titanic disaster; Justice Ezekiel McLeod, of New Brunswick; and Justice Routhier, of the Admiralty Court of Quebec; with George Vaux, representing the British Board of Trade, sitting as an advisory member. It is to be hoped that the commission will not only report as to responsibility and conduct, but will take up the question whether anything can possibly be done to lessen the danger of collision in fog. Is the present signal-practice clear, simple, and uniform? Could there be added one more other signals to advantage? Have the maritime nations united in common action to insure uniform practice? Is there truth in the belief expressed by some experts that submarine bells can be used to signal from ship to ship, as well as from a stationary point or to ships? The fog danger is so universal and terrible that human ingenuity and efficiency should be centered upon its solution. CONFLICTING STATEMENTS The public statements made by Captain Kendall, of the Empress of Ireland, and Captain Anderson, of the Storstad, are in some points flatly contradictory, although it is possible that some of the differences are explainable. As in the sinking of the Monroe off the capes of Virginia, each captain had seen the other's vessel before the fog settled down between them. The Empress had passed Rimouski, below Quebec, on her way to Liverpool. The Storstad was feeling her way up the river. It was about two o'clock in the morning of May 29. Captain Kendall's story is that after the fog came down and the Storstad's lights had disappeared he stopped his ship. What followed he thus describes : At the same time I blew three short blasts on the whistle, meaning, "I am going full speed astern." The Storstad answered with the whistle, giving many prolonged blasts. I looked over the side into the water and saw that my ship was stopped. I blew two long blasts, meaning," My ship was under way, but stopped, and has no way upon her." He answered me again with one prolonged blast. It was very foggy. About two minutes afterward I saw his red and green lights. I shouted to him through the megaphone to go full speed astern; at the same time I put my engines full speed ahead, with my helm hard aport, with the object of avoiding, if possible, the shock. Almost at the same time he came right in and cut me down in a line between the funnels. After the collision Captain Kendall shouted through his megaphone demands that the prow of the Storstad be pushed and held in |